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August 2005: Seaside City Council hires Ray Corpuz as its new city manager. Corpuz had left his job as Tacoma city manager under heavy criticism for promoting a police chief who later committed murder-suicide, and for suspected special favors from the Tacoma PD. Corpuz, who was eventually cl…
Mystery Leave | Cercone asked DA to investigate case…
A dozen green “I Support Seaside Police” buttons bea…
A fter recently buying the bank-owned Design Center,…
The makeshift music room, lit by a single light bulb, feels more like an 8-by-8-foot tomb. A six-foot Emperor amplifier, an oversized four-piece drum set, a mattress pressed up against the lone window and a Twisted Sister record on an empty bookcase are all crammed into the space along with …
In a city nicknamed Butterfly Town, USA – where an a…
Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld can of…
Keb’ Mo’ has never been a man who wants to become a …
FACTORY MADE… Maybe Squid has given too much ink to Morgan Christopher over the years. Squid has covered the coffeehouse owner’s code violation feud with former Monterey city attorney Bill Conners and last spring’s FOOF fundraiser to keep the Ol’ Factory Café open. Squid was in the know when…
The Sand City Council voted unanimously for a 45-day…
We have no idea why it’s called Planet 51, or why th…
The Monterey City Council appeared to be stepping ba…
The 28th District state Assembly primary is turning into another Salinas vs. Watsonville showdown. City Councilwoman and schoolteacher Janet Barnes announced her candidacy Nov. 16, hoping to catch up to Democratic rival Luis Alejo, an attorney who was recently appointed Watsonville’s mayor.
Central Coast Energy Services, which provides energy…
The central thesis in this omnibus of short films (spun off from Emmanuel Benbihy and Tristan Carné’s compilation film Paris, Je T’aime) seems to be that New York is not its landmarks or its landscape; New York is its people.
One of the defining moments of Kent Peterson’s music…
“That’s the price of healthcare reform.” That’s what…
“Fleeting but meaningful flings,” they’re calling it. “They” are the creative minds behind Carl Cherry Center for the Arts (just “the Cherry” to friends), and “it” is this weekend’s Talk to Me monologues program: three days packed with punchy jabs of monologues and soliloquies starting with …
An unlikely but seemingly inevitable conclusion emer…
When I owned and operated a small pumpkin pie busine…
They appear in the wee hours of the morning and are gone two days later, so unimposing few drivers notice the diminutive devices. But despite their tiny-bump-in-the-road stature, the information they provide affects some of the biggest and most divisive issues – traffic, planning and develop…
